Palm Sunday Praise – Grove City College Touring Choir

Grove City College Touring Choir

As you begin Holy Week on Palm Sunday, be uplifted by the magnificent voices of the Grove City College Touring Choir in a program of spiritually inspired and jubilant choral music in Lincoln Hall in Foxburg on March 29, 2026 at 2:00 PM.  

Come on down to the River for a refreshing afternoon of music as ARCA celebrates the musical excellence of a preeminent choral group in our region in a rich and diverse program including classical sacred works, songs of praise and African American spirituals - from Palestrina, Mozart and Haydn to Bernstein, Whitacre and Rutter.

The Choir’s concert in Foxburg follows their annual Spring east coast tour to Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania.  The group travels widely and has performed in virtually every state east of the Mississippi River, including New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington D.C., Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Baltimore and Detroit.  It dedicates itself to the highest standards of musicianship and expressiveness as a choral ensemble.

Tickets are $15 for Adults, Students and Children under 6 are free. Buy online at alleghenyriverstone.org or call 724-659-3153 to reserve and pay with cash or check at the door.

In recent years the choir has been invited to perform with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Erie Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony, and the Wheeling, WV Symphony.  In April 2015, the Touring Choir performed the Mozart Requiem with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra, was the featured choir with the Keith and Kristyn Getty Band as part of the Getty’s national tour and in April 2016, the choir performed Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Verdi’s Te Deum with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in Heinz Hall.

The Touring Choir has been in existence since its founding in 1959 by Oscar Cooper and continues as a co-curricular activity on the Grove City College campus. Members are selected by rigorous audition and represent a variety of academic disciplines from across the campus community.

In addition to the annual Spring tour, the choir performs for churches in western Pennsylvania and at various campus events. A highlight of the Christmas season for the choir members is their musical leadership in the annual college candlelight services.

Performances of the Touring Choir for professional music organizations have included the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Annual Conferences in 1984, 1986, 1990, 1997, 2004, and 2009; the Music Educators National Conference Eastern Division Conventions in 1987 and 1991; and the Eastern Division Convention of the American Choral Directors Association in 2002. In April of 2001 the choir sang for the Palm Sunday Services at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.

The conductor of the choir is Dr. Katherine Mueller, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Grove City College. She completed her D.M.A. in Conducting from Shenandoah Conservatory with Maestro Robert Shafer, holds a Master’s Degree in Conducting from Carnegie Mellon with Maestro Robert Page, a Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory and a Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Performance from Susquehanna University.

While in Pittsburgh, Dr. Mueller was Music Director of the 90-voice Pittsburgh Concert Chorale for five seasons and Choir Director at the Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church. Dr. Mueller also served as Assistant Conductor of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, the choir of choice of the Pittsburgh Symphony, where she prepared an opera choruses program for visiting conductor Ian Robertson of the San Francisco Opera and prepared a women’s chorus for The Pittsburgh Ballet’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.